Object oriented authorization for Rails applications

Simple authorization solution for Rails. All permissions are stored in a single location.

Simple authorization solution for Rails which is decoupled from user roles. All permissions are stored in a single location.

Very simple Roles library without any authorization enforcement supporting scope on resource objects (instance or class). Supports ActiveRecord and Mongoid ORMs.

declarative_authorization is a Rails plugin for maintainable authorization based on readable authorization rules.

Authorization framework for Ruby/Rails application

Authority helps you authorize actions in your Rails app. It's ORM-neutral and has very little fancy syntax; just group your models under one or more Authorizer classes and write plain Ruby methods on them.

Role-based authorization system for Rails with a concise DSL for securing your Rails application. Acl9 makes it easy to get security right for your app, the access control code sits right in your controller, the syntax is very easy to understand, and acl9 makes it easy to test your access rules.

Authorization gem for Ruby on Rails with Management Panel

Role based authorization gem

Ever needed to assign roles to a model, say a User, and build conditional behaviour on top of that? Enter RoleModel -- roles have never been easier! Just declare your roles and you are done. Assigned roles will be stored as a bitmask.

Simple role based security for restful_authentication I am no longer involved in this project. If you are interested in becoming the new maintainer and making it your own, please contact me. I will no longer be responding to bug reports or questions. Thanks, Tim

Define your permission rules as role- or role group specific permits. Integrates well with multiple Devise user acounts. Includes rules caching. Store permissions in yaml file or key-value store

A scope-based authorization solution for Ruby on Rails.

A simple authorization gem

A plugin-based framework for supporting multiple authentication and authorization systems in Rails/Rack apps. Supports resource-oriented route-by-route access control lists with TLS authentication.

Banken provides a set of helpers which restricts what resources a given user is allowed to access.

An integrated Authentication, Authorization and Roles solution for your Rails 3 app with support for multiple ORMs

Simple permissions that I have used on my last several projects so I figured it was time to abstract and wrap up into something more easily reusable.

Easy role authorization in rails

Aegis is an authorization solution for Ruby on Rails that supports roles and a RESTish, resource-style declaration of permission rules.

Wraps CanCan and RoleModel up to make role based authorisation really easy in Rails 3.x.

Simple object-based role authorization in Rails

Rails authorization plugin

Simple role-based authorization library for Ruby on Rails

Moat is an small authorization library built for Ruby (primarily Rails) web applications

Allowy provides CanCan-like way of checking permission but doesn't enforce a tight DSL giving you more control

Trust is a resource oriented framework for authorization control. It is compatible with Rails 3 and 4. It has a loose coupling from the models, and features a native Ruby implementation language. Support for inheritance and namespaced models as well as nested routes. Even permissions scheme supp...

An opinionated almost-turnkey solution for managing authorization in Rails

Permisi provides a way of dynamically declaring user rights (a.k.a. permissions) using a simple role-based access control scheme. A user may be associated to multiple roles with a different set of permissions in each role. The roles and user-roles association can be dynamically defined and change...

Roles solution for active-record-backed Rails 3 applications

Walruz provides an easy to use DSL to do composition of basic authorization policies to create more complex ones, and then register this composed policies on actions performed to the model begin accessed

A port of Zend_Acl with modifications made to bring the API more inline with Ruby conventions.

A Ruby on Rails plugin that provides fine grained access control to RESTful resources.

An DSL to manage your authorizations and groups of access with CanCan without repeating yourself using as many files you want.